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posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the help-us dept.

Recognizing that global collaboration is imperative for solving the world's greatest challenges has been a powerful paradigm shift in recent years. This global focus is important to create impact at scale, and also helps when solving pressing challenges within our own local communities; sometimes the solution is right at our fingertips, and other times, the idea is budding across a distant border.

Launched at the Second Annual Exponential Impact Day on June 15th, the 2015 Singularity University Impact Challenge is a new impact competition in collaboration with California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. The goal? To help alleviate the severe drought in California by leveraging new and exponentially growing technologies.

"Water is certainly one of our Global Grand Challenges," says Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, chief impact officer at Singularity University. "And if you look at our mission, it embodies what we want to do as an organization, which is to leverage exponential technology to solve a Global Grand Challenge. What better way to do that than to solve the biggest problem in California right now and one that is in our backyard?"

Golden Opportunity, Soylentils: What's your technological magic bullet solve a problem caused by generations of water policy failures?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:31PM (#214887)

    It's a cognitive limitation that served...

    FTFY